LISTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Charles Alderton	Inventor	21-Jun-1857	29-May-1941	Invented Dr Pepper
Alfonso XIII	Royalty	17-May-1886	28-Feb-1941	King of Spain, 1902-31
Sherwood Anderson	Author	13-Sep-1876	8-Mar-1941	The Triumph of the Egg
Robert Baden-Powell	Military	22-Feb-1857	8-Jan-1941	Founder of the Boy Scout movement
James A. Baker	Attorney	10-Jan-1857	2-Aug-1941	Baker Botts
Frederick G. Banting	Scientist	14-Nov-1891	21-Feb-1941	Discovered insulin
Hans Berger	Physicist	21-May-1873	1-Jun-1941	Electroencephalogram
Henri Bergson	Philosopher	18-Oct-1859	4-Jan-1941	L'Évolution Créatrice
Gutzon Borglum	Sculptor	25-Mar-1867	6-Mar-1941	Mount Rushmore
Louis D. Brandeis	Judge	13-Nov-1856	5-Oct-1941	US Supreme Court Justice, 1916-39
Annie Jump Cannon	Astronomer	11-Dec-1863	13-Apr-1941	Census-taker of the sky
Louis Chevrolet	Auto Racing	25-Dec-1878	6-Jun-1941	Designed the first Chevrolet
A. J. Clark	Scientist	19-Aug-1885	30-Jul-1941	Drug responses
Harry M. Daugherty	Government	26-Jan-1860	12-Oct-1941	US Attorney General, 1921-24
Louis L. Emmerson	Politician	27-Dec-1863	4-Feb-1941	Governor of Illinois, 1929-33
William L. Emmet	Engineer	10-Jul-1859	26-Sep-1941	All-electric warships
Stanley Fields	Actor	20-May-1883	23-Apr-1941	Way Out West
Sir James Frazer	Anthropologist	1-Jan-1854	7-May-1941	The Golden Bough
Lou Gehrig	Baseball	19-Jun-1903	2-Jun-1941	Played 2,130 consecutive games
Frederick Griffith	Biologist	c. 1877	16-Apr-1941	Discovered the transforming principle
Franz Guertner	Government	26-Aug-1881	29-Jan-1941	Reich Minister of Justice
Hamilton Harty	Conductor	4-Dec-1879	19-Feb-1941	Principal Conductor, The Hallé, 1920-34
Willis C. Hawley	Politician	5-May-1864	24-Jul-1941	Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act
Alanson B. Houghton	Diplomat	10-Oct-1863	15-Sep-1941	US Ambassador to the UK, 1925-29
Frank L. Houx	Politician	12-Dec-1854	3-Apr-1941	Governor of Wyoming, 1917-19
Howard Johnson	Songwriter	2-Jun-1887	1-May-1941	We All Scream for Ice Cream
James Joyce	Author	2-Feb-1882	13-Jan-1941	Ulysses
Ernest Just	Biologist	14-Aug-1883	27-Oct-1941	Cell surfaces and egg fertilization
Gus Kahn	Songwriter	6-Nov-1886	8-Oct-1941	Ain't We Got Fun?
Maurice Leblanc	Novelist	11-Dec-1864	6-Nov-1941	Creator of Arsène Lupin
Tullio Levi-Civita	Mathematician	29-Mar-1873	29-Dec-1941	Explored tensor calculus and PDE's
E. W. Marland	Politician	8-May-1874	3-Oct-1941	Governor of Oklahoma, 1935-39
William G. McAdoo	Politician	31-Oct-1863	1-Feb-1941	US Secretary of the Treasury, 1913-18
Helen Morgan	Actor	2-Aug-1900	9-Oct-1941	Show Boat
Jelly Roll Morton	Jazz Musician	20-Oct-1890	10-Jul-1941	Jazz composer, pianist
Walther Nernst	Chemist	25-Jun-1864	18-Nov-1941	Third Law of Thermodynamics
Ignace Paderewski	Pianist	18-Nov-1860	29-Jun-1941	Polish pianist and composer
Joe Penner	Radio Personality	11-Nov-1904	10-Jan-1941	Wanna buy a duck?
John S. Plaskett	Astronomer	17-Nov-1865	17-Oct-1941	Plaskett's star
Edwin Stanton Porter	Film Director	21-Apr-1870	30-Apr-1941	The Great Train Robbery
Ludwig Quidde	Activist	23-Mar-1858	4-Mar-1941	German pacifist, Nobel Prize recipient
Abe Reles	Criminal	1906	12-Nov-1941	Hitman for Murder, Inc.
Elizabeth Madox Roberts	Author	30-Oct-1881	13-Mar-1941	The Great Meadow
Charles Edward Russell	Author	25-Sep-1860	23-Apr-1941	The Greatest Trust in the World
Paul Sabatier	Chemist	5-Nov-1854	14-Aug-1941	Heterogeneous catalysis
Pitts Sanborn	Critic	1878	7-Mar-1941	Music critic for New York Globe
Victor Schertzinger	Film Director	8-Apr-1890	26-Oct-1941	Road to Singapore
Reed Smoot	Politician	10-Jan-1862	9-Feb-1941	Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act
Hans Spemann	Scientist	27-Jun-1869	9-Sep-1941	Experimental embryology
James Speyer	Business	22-Jul-1861	31-Oct-1941	New York Banker
Eugene O. Sykes	Government	16-Jul-1876	21-Jun-1941	First Chairman of the FCC, 1934-35
Rabindranath Tagore	Poet	7-May-1861	7-Aug-1941	Gitanjali
Willis Van Devanter	Judge	17-Apr-1859	8-Feb-1941	US Supreme Court Justice, 1911-37
Chris Watson	Head of State	9-Apr-1867	18-Nov-1941	Prime Minister of Australia, 1904
Kaiser Wilhelm	Head of State	27-Jan-1859	4-Jun-1941	Last of the German emperors
Virginia Woolf	Novelist	25-Jan-1882	28-Mar-1941	Suicidal English novelist

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